Creating Live USB Media for Fedora Rawhide (F22)

Since my hard disc failed on me a few days back, I've to reinstall my GNU/Linux environment again. Since I don't have any USB thumbdrive with me, is far more economical to perform the installation through CD. However, after comparing the price between empty CDs and a USB thumbdrive, is far more economical to use an thumbdrive. Furthermore, you can "burn" the different multiple ISO image to the same thumbdrive.

Instead of using the last stable Fedora release (F21), I opt for the Rawhide (F22) release. You can download the nightly image ISO. Note that this is a network installation image, hence the small image size of 500-plus MB.

The nightly image is quite buggy and installer may not work. If you stuck with the nightly image, consider trying the Alpha pre-release image instead.

To reduce the download time, we'll use Aria2, a console downloader program that support multiple parallel HTTP connections. On the safe side, we're using a maximum 4 connections per server (-x 4), the default is 1. You can use different value but your mileage may vary. Also, it's considered a poor etiquette to make too many connections.

Plug in your USB thumbdrive. Check the device name using the lsblk command to list the available block devices. This is currently my go-to command to see all available devices and partitions. As we can see below, the device name for USB thumbdrive is /dev/sdb.

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